US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer dismisses as "preposterous" reports that it hired investigators to pressure Nigeria's attorney general during a multi-million dollar lawsuit.

Prospects for a deal at the UN climate summit appear to be receding, with countries clashing on principle as the meeting nears an end.

A US jury convicts three police officers and acquits two others over the killing of a man after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans in 2005.

Indonesian police say they have arrested one of the country's most wanted men, accused of recruiting and helping to train Islamic militants.

Police in Delhi announce new safety measures to protect women who work at night, following the gang rape of a call centre worker two weeks ago.

An embattled Somali radio station, Radio Shabelle, receives an international press freedom award at a ceremony in Paris.

Brian David Mitchell is found guilty of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart, then 14, from her Utah home in 2002 and transporting her for sex.

A high-ranking Canadian pilot convicted of two murders and violent sexual assaults is formally ejected from the Canadian military.